Zombi By Anand Yadav

आजच्या आर्थिक आणि सामाजिक परिस्थितीत अस्वस्थ होऊन धुमसणे हाच ग्रामीण जीवनाचा स्थायीभाव आहे. त्या अस्वस्थपणाचा स्फोट मराठी साहित्यात सुरू झालाच आहे. हे व्हायला हेवेच होते. शिवाय, साऱ्या जगातलं साहित्य समृद्ध केलं आहे. ते या `झोंबी`सारख्या वाचकाला अस्वस्थ करणाऱ्या ग्रंथांनीच! पु. ल. देशपांडे Zombee literally means wresting. This is an account of a youth from interior Maharashtra. He fights his way through just to complete his secondary education. His landless father tilling lands for others, thinks his son`s education not only unaffordable but unwise also, He helplessly watches his mothr permanently fated to thankless labour, contineously working for an evergrowing family deep in the cluthes of customs and superstitions. He had to wrestle with hardships and hunger to complete his school education. This autobiographical novel is an authentic tale as much of the author and his family as of any of the hundreds of landless families from rural interiors.